The Sweetness of Once | The Mid-Week Memo | May 13, 2026
May 13, 2026
There is something quietly powerful about the idea that this moment—right now—will never come again. Emily Dickinson captured it in a single line: “That it
There is something quietly powerful about the idea that this moment—right now—will never come again. Emily Dickinson captured it in a single line: “That it
During an iFIT walk on my treadmill through a Mallorcan olive grove, I saw and heard something on my screen that stopped me in my
“A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.”— J. I. Packer One of the quiet dangers facing the modern church is not
There’s a strange and beautiful detail tucked into 2 Kings 4:31–35. The Shunammite woman’s promised son has died. She finds Elisha, and he goes to
I recently was reminded of how important music was in our home growing up. As new believers, and in the center of the Jesus movement,
“The tuning up of the orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can in some measure, however little, anticipate the symphony.” —
Aldous Huxley once wrote, “The most valuable education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to
There’s a story often told about Chinese bamboo that feels almost too good to be true—yet it’s grounded in how growth actually works. For the
Jesus says something almost too beautiful to absorb if we’re not careful. “Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their